 About 23.4% rural and 4.2% of the urban population have access to drinking water; normally urban areas in Ethiopia have a larger percentage with access to drinkable water than rural areas.The 2007 national census reported a total population for this woreda of 58,701, of whom 29,675 were men and 29,026 were women; 5,764 or 9.82% of its population were urban dwellers.The majority of the inhabitants said they were Muslim, with 96.44% of the population reporting they observed this belief, while 3.27% of the population practised Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity.